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Over Coffee® is on holiday-weekend hiatus. Please enjoy this reposting of one of our top episodes of 2021, and join us again next week for another new conversation on innovation, creativity and making a difference! (Photograph courtesy of Cooper and O'Hara Photography, and used with permission.) This post and podcast are for informational purposes only, and are not intended as medical advice. Please contact a healthcare professional with any medical questions. What are the challenges involved in staying healthy, when your workday occurs in zero gravity? And when radiation exposure and space dust are valid concerns? That's the focus of Dr. Shawna Pandya's career. As a physician, Dr. Pandya wears multiple "hats". In addition to being Vice-President of Immersive Medicine at Sasketchewan-based virtual-reality pioneer Luxsonic Technologies Inc., she is a citizen-scientist astronaut with Boulder, Colorado-based Project PoSSUM. This 501c nonprofit uses astronautics to study the role of our upper